Chapter 21: Reborn 1987 Chapter 21: The Wu Family's Ordeal

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Protagonist:

Jiang Wenyu

After a busy day, he returned home in the evening, ate dinner, and still had to continue repairing that walkie-talkie; its internals were truly complex, and without a day or two it probably couldn't be fixed.

Right at that moment, a knock sounded at the door; Jiang Wenyu didn't go out but could hear Chen Lan opening the door.

"Huh? Miao Miao, how did you come here?"

"Sister Chen, I…"

Hearing the voice, it seemed a bit familiar, so he couldn't help but walk out as well.

The girl who walked in from outside was someone he actually recognized — it was precisely Wu Miaomiao, whom he had met before, Nuan Nuan's former kindergarten teacher.

Only at this moment her appearance was a bit strange; her hair was somewhat messy, her complexion very unsightly, her eye rims red as if she had cried.

"Mr. Jiang, sorry to disturb…" Wu Miaomiao also saw Jiang Wenyu, lowered her head in greeting, yet her expression was very pained.

Jiang Wenyu also walked over to help; Chen Lan immediately brought some hot boiled water, and after she sat down she forced a smile and said: "Is Nuan Nuan at home?"

Chen Lan smiled and nodded: "She's in the inner room." Then she asked worriedly: "What happened to you?"

Jiang Wenyu wasn't an outsider either; Wu Miaomiao took a deep breath, but her nose started sniffing again, her big eyes reddened, looking very pitiful, and with a sob in her voice she said: "The kindergarten closed down, the factory also stopped, my dad… my dad also passed away."

Jiang Wenyu and Chen Lan were both utterly shocked upon hearing this; her dad, that is, the boss of the food factory where Chen Lan used to work, the man named Wu Guoli who had come to their home a while ago.

Wu Guoli had once specially looked after Chen Lan; after Chen Lan was driven out by Wu Chang, he kindly helped arrange a job for her at the clothing factory — he could be called a thoroughly good man — so Chen Lan also hurriedly asked: "What's going on? I knew Wu Boss's health was poor, but he hadn't…"

The rest of the words weren't easy to say aloud, but Wu Miaomiao understood the implication; her nose sniffed, and while wiping tears she choked out: "Half a month ago… half a month ago my younger brother started demanding money from my dad, and the amount was much larger than before; my dad initially didn't give it, so he started making trouble in the factory, even secretly taking the wage money meant for the factory workers. My dad fainted directly upon hearing that…"

As Wu Miaomiao recounted it painfully and sorrowfully, every time she spoke of Wu Chang she gnashed her teeth in hatred.

It turned out that after Wu Chang took the money and left, Wu Guoli fell ill and never recovered; all the factory's money had been taken by Wu Chang, the workers had no wages so naturally they all stopped working, but that still wasn't enough — when Wu Chang came back a second time he actually ran to the kindergarten run by the factory and took the kindergarten's money as well; with this, both the factory and the kindergarten shut down completely.

Wu Miaomiao, as the eldest daughter of the family, found Wu Chang and asked for the reason, asked where the money went, but Wu Chang not only didn't say, he even demanded money from Wu Miaomiao; where would she have money? Right then she gave her younger brother a slap and returned to accompany Wu Guoli.

But after hearing all this, Wu Guoli persisted for a few days and finally still couldn't pull through; he passed away ten days ago.

After her father's death, Wu Miaomiao was still immersed in grief preparing to handle Wu Guoli's funeral, but just as the front foot was about to start, the back foot Wu Chang returned again, opening his mouth to ask Wu Miaomiao where the food factory's deed was; Wu Miaomiao burned with rage at once — her father had just met with a great calamity, yet Wu Chang was still thinking about the deed!

Without a second word she grabbed a stick and drove Wu Chang away, devoting herself to handling Wu Guoli's funeral.

But also on the day after that, she returned to the factory to deal with the aftermath; normally their family of three lived in the old house behind the factory, but at that time everything in the house had been turned upside down, and even though Wu Guoli had prepared during his lifetime by burying the deed underground, it was still dug up.

No need to think to know who did it.

Chema City is just this big; after this Wu Miaomiao ran east and west, and finally managed to learn some information.

It turned out Wu Chang had been using the factory's money to gamble and squander outside, and in the end lost it all; the factory's deed was used as collateral for the debts.

When she heard this, Wu Miaomiao nearly fainted; her father's lifetime of savings and effort collapsed in an instant, and how could the young Wu Miaomiao bear all this.

Consecutive days of grief even gave Wu Miaomiao thoughts of suicide; and when she returned to the factory again, the factory had already begun to be renovated — people told her this place no longer belonged to Wu Guoli, and even the kindergarten had all been mortgaged to someone else.

Bolt-from-the-blue news came one after another, causing Wu Miaomiao to collapse; and Wu Chang couldn't be seen at all after that — with no way out, she could only come to Chen Lan's home.